Hello,
Would be grateful to hear from all of you experts since I am not. Here's where we're stuck:
My brother's Y-DNA test, last name Lovett, registered with the Lovett Surname Project, turned out to be almost an exact match with someone by the last name of Terry. Genetic distance 1. Everything matches for Y-DNA 37 with the exception of CDY, and in that case, none of the 6 men who match my brother have the same CDY numbers. We can find where our line connects to all but 1 of the other men with the same last name.
This has to be a NPE on the part of this other person, but we can't figure out how. While his last name, Terry, appears in the land records and church records of the very small local area where our ancestors lived, the name doesn't appear on our family tree, so there is no obvious place where someone might have had a child and handed it over to a brother-in-law or something like that. How do we go about eliminating possibilities to figure out how many generations back this event might have happened? Then we would at least know which group of men to start investigating.
My brother has not run a Family Finder (autosomal) test but I have and Patrick Terry and I have no overlap. Would it necessarily be different if my brother did the test? Since Patrick and my brother are listed as genetic distance 1 on the Lovett surname project, that led us to believe the NPE was somewhat recent but I have since heard otherwise.
All suggestions welcome.
Laura
Would be grateful to hear from all of you experts since I am not. Here's where we're stuck:
My brother's Y-DNA test, last name Lovett, registered with the Lovett Surname Project, turned out to be almost an exact match with someone by the last name of Terry. Genetic distance 1. Everything matches for Y-DNA 37 with the exception of CDY, and in that case, none of the 6 men who match my brother have the same CDY numbers. We can find where our line connects to all but 1 of the other men with the same last name.
This has to be a NPE on the part of this other person, but we can't figure out how. While his last name, Terry, appears in the land records and church records of the very small local area where our ancestors lived, the name doesn't appear on our family tree, so there is no obvious place where someone might have had a child and handed it over to a brother-in-law or something like that. How do we go about eliminating possibilities to figure out how many generations back this event might have happened? Then we would at least know which group of men to start investigating.
My brother has not run a Family Finder (autosomal) test but I have and Patrick Terry and I have no overlap. Would it necessarily be different if my brother did the test? Since Patrick and my brother are listed as genetic distance 1 on the Lovett surname project, that led us to believe the NPE was somewhat recent but I have since heard otherwise.
All suggestions welcome.
Laura
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